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Defense Department and Lockheed Martin officials announced on Tuesday they’ve reached a “handshake deal” on the sixth and seventh low-rate initial production lots for the F-35 strike fighter. The agreement in principle—which covers the F-35 air vehicles, but not their...

p, .The Air Force does not plan to build any more bases in the Pacific, but will maintain a significant presence in the region. During the Cold War era “almost every CONUS unit” would rotate to Europe every 18 months...

Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle said the United States and India are considering an exchange program for their respective C-17 units. “There are opportunities for us to learn from each other,” Carlisle told reporters during a July 29...

Adm. Cecil Haney, President Obama’s nominee to lead US Strategic Command, said on Tuesday he’d oppose the United States making unilateral reductions in the size of its strategic nuclear arsenal beyond New START levels. “I think it’s very important that...

The Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel provided $516.4 billion in base funding and $77.8 billion for overseas contingency operations in Tuesday’s mark-up of the Pentagon’s Fiscal 2014 budget request. “With increasingly limited funds, this bill cuts waste, prioritizes department spending,...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered an emotional tribute to his long-time friend and fellow Vietnam War prisoner of war, retired Col. Bud Day who died on July 27 in Florida at age 88. “We met in 1967, when the Vietnamese...

Lockheed Martin announced that it demonstrated the new long-range air-surveillance radar model that it is offering the Air Force in the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar competition. The radar prototype displayed “maturity, flexibility, scalability, and the benefits of its open technology...

Northrop Grumman won a contract from the Air Force potentially worth $490 million to continue providing network and integration services under the Distributed Mission Operations Network 2.0 service contract, announced the company. If the Air Force exercises all options, the...